Life didn't promise to be wonderful.

- Teddy Pendergrass

I can't speak for everybody, I think, for me, I will not be defined by the lyrics of my song. I am a man who does music. It's like clothes don't make…

- Teddy Pendergrass

As a matter of fact my, my very first time singing when I was two and a half, three, was in church. So, ahm, church is very, very much a part of who …

- Teddy Pendergrass

I've always been one to take chances and I've always been one to, to create or follow through with instincts.

- Teddy Pendergrass

From the time I can remember my mother kept me in church. I think my first recollection of any place, being anywhere was in a church.

- Teddy Pendergrass

I love to be in control of everything I do and everything around me. So that means, you give me a romantic lyric and I'll make the atmosphere, I will…

- Teddy Pendergrass

When I go on stage I am just, I don't make any attempts to do anything more than just what makes me comfortable.

- Teddy Pendergrass

I've never written for anybody else. For me, it was a challenge. I write for me. I don't write for anybody else. And what was good about it was that …

- Teddy Pendergrass

I've always been willing to take challenges, I grew up taking challenges: being an only child, having a mother, no father, I've always been one who h…

- Teddy Pendergrass